Universal Themes Lessons

A beaver’s dam is a nice home and a terrible flood. Students pick a change and note how it can be both positive and negative.

Some power you can point at. Some you can only feel. Which one is stronger?

Power is everywhere, big and small, loud and quiet. In this version for younger students, kids brainstorm as many examples of power as they can, sort them into their own groups, and discover a big idea: power comes in many forms. A simple way to kick off the universal theme of power with primary grades.

So what could you do with a Universal Theme of Conflict? Well, here’s an introduction that will get your students’ brains sweating.

Everything changes. But how does it change? Students brainstorm dozens of examples and boil them down to one big idea.

So what could you do with a Universal Theme of Systems? Well, here’s an introduction that will get your students’ brains sweating.

So what could you do with a Universal Theme of Power? Well, here’s an introduction that will get your students’ brains sweating.